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SHELTON, Conn., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SSI announced today that CEO Kees de Jong has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, effective June 29th 2012. De Jong's area of focus will be strategic development. Additionally he will continue to play a key role in SSI's thought leadership in online and offline sampling and data collection methods and support the expansion of SSI's partnerships. De Jong (43), entrepreneur, market research veteran and founder of European...

SHELTON, Conn., Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SSI announced today that it has appointed Christopher Fanning as its new President and Chief Operating Officer. Fanning will focus on optimizing SSI's core sampling and data collection services, taking immediate responsibility for its North American and Latin American markets. He brings a 25-year track record of success in business management, executive leadership, strategic planning and operational excellence to his new role....

SHELTON, Conn., Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SSI now offers access to more than 190 million US registered voters. To ensure accuracy, its voter records are continuously vetted and updated, based on information from more than 4,000 election boards, county clerks and voter registrars. Using the SSI sample, political and public affairs researchers have the flexibility to focus on more than 500 specific audience segments, targeting by party affiliation, voting history, donor history,...

SHELTON, Conn., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SSI has significantly enhanced its QuickTake(TM) do-it-yourself research solution, which lets users conduct surveys 24/7 with target audiences across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Added features include automatic translations, allowing users to program surveys once and present them to respondents in up to 8 different languages...expanded capacity, giving users the option of asking up to 20 closed- or open-ended questions...and the...

SHELTON, Conn., Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SSI today announced that it has donated to charities around the world in honor of the 2011 SSI QUEST(TM) (Questionnaire Experience Satisfaction Tool) Award winners. The SSI QUEST Awards, announced at the 2011 ESOMAR Congress in Amsterdam, recognized six companies for creating the most engaging market research experiences--both overall and within the product placement category. As a reward for their excellence in survey design,...

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SSI announced the winners of its second annual SSI QUEST(TM) Awards -- honoring companies for creating the most engaging research experiences -- at last night's Welcome Reception for the 2011 ESOMAR Congress in Amsterdam. Kees de Jong, CEO of SSI, recognized three companies around the world as overall winners for excellence in survey design: InfoTrends in the Americas, Data100 Market Research Co. Ltd in Asia-Pacific and Opinion Matters in Europe....

SHELTON, Conn., July 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- New studies by SSI and The Research Intelligence Group (TRiG) show that two-thirds of patients around the world feel disrespected by their physicians. Unclear communication is a prime reason for patients' dissatisfaction. About a quarter of patients globally complain that physicians don't answer questions, don't involve them in treatment decisions and use medical terms with no explanation. This appears to be a direct outcome of doctors not...

MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- SSI announced today that its ClickON® RADs has been deemed RACTrac compatible by the American Hospital Association (AHA). ClickON® RADs, SSI's Recovery Audit Defense system, is a product specifically designed for hospitals dealing with RAC (Recovery Audit Contractor) letters. SSI has customized this solution to best facilitate a user's RAC data submission to the AHA RACTrac survey. For a RAC management tool to be considered RACTrac...

MIAMI, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement can be attributed to Henry Morgenstern, President of SSI, author of the book published by academic publisher John Wiley - "Suicide Terror: understanding and confronting the threat" and a well-known commentator on issues of national security in the US media and the press. With President Obama forever setting the tone for counter terrorism with his statements of "let's not jump to conclusions" after the Ft. Hood massacre, after Detroit...

GLEN BURNIE, Md., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Sleep Solutions®, Inc. (SSI), the leading diagnostic service provider for home testing and evaluation of sleep-disordered breathing, today announced it has named Richard Hassett, M.D., as its chief executive officer. Hassett was most recently president of Matria Healthcare, during its growth from a $250 million healthcare holding company into a $350 million industry leader in total population health, and its subsequent sale for nearly $1 billion....